Floresville City Council backs Evergreen water join proposal
The Floresville City Council unanimously supported a resolution backing Southwest Bexar County joining the Evergreen Underground Water Conservation District to protect the Carrizo Aquifer from SAWS pumping. The meeting also advanced a $150,000 Texas Capital Fund grant for courthouse square improvements and approved rezoning to permit duplexes on South 2nd Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jon Brucks
Floresville
Raymond Ramirez
Debbie Boll
Gerard Jimenez
Cissy Gonzalez
Juan Ortiz
Tony Ximenez
Bexar County
Evergreen Underground Water Conservation District
Ramirez
Bexar
Evergreen
Carrizo
Water District
Texas Capital Fund
Main Street
Harry Grove
Wilson County Emergency Management
Fran Randall
Texas Department of Agriculture
Wilson County Commissioner’s Court
Randall
Bolf
C and
South 2Nd Streets
Chris Pipes
David Strozier
Ximenez
Carlton Pape
Wilson County
Pape
FEDC Initiatives land acquisitions plan veteran home in Floresville
FEDC Executive Director Jesse Perez outlines projects aimed at boosting Floresville’s economy. The board partners with city and county officials to acquire land for a Texas Veterans Home on 20 acres, with 30 acres for a future medical park, providing land at no cost and generating local revenue through wages and services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Perez
FEDC
Floresville
County Commissioners Court
Texas Veterans Home
Wilson County Memorial Hospital
Veterans Home
Texas
Voters Hit the polls for 19 Texas amendments
Texas voters go to the polls on November 6 2001 to decide 19 proposed constitutional amendments. The legislature added a toll free hotline for reporting polling place issues, to be posted at voting sites. Early voting is underway at Wilson County Courthouse Election Room 104 and ends November 2 2001. Proposition 1 would cede state rights to disputed Bastrop County land.
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Texas
Wilson County
Bastrop County
Polling places and ballot measures for 2001 amendment election
Wilson County voters will cast ballots November 6 from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at listed polling sites Floresville, Canada Verde, Path City, La Vernia, Ludwig Springs, Stockdale, and Eagle Creek. Propositions include up to 175 million in state general obligation bonds for border road aid, tax exemptions for Harris County coffee shipments, a four year term for firefighters pension commissioner, gifting outdated firefighting equipment to underdeveloped countries, a special session to appoint presidential electors if timely, veterans mortgage bonds and cemeteries, up to 850 million by Texas Public Finance Authority, vacancy filling without election, and tax exemptions for warehoused personal property.
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Wilson County
Floresville
Canada Verde Fire Department
Path City
la Vernia
Lu Dined Springs
Stockdale
Eagle Creek
Harris County
New York Board of Trade
Veterans’ Land Board
Nance
Land and Housing Assistance
Texas Public Finance Authority
Texas
Missing Narcotics Reported From Taskforce Division
On Wednesday night October 24 2001 an undisclosed amount of narcotics was reported missing from the Taskforce Narcotics Division. Sheriff Joe Tackitt Texas Rangers and the DPS Narcotics Captain are investigating and inventorying the drugs to determine the missing amount. No further comments were provided pending investigation outcomes.
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Taskforce Narcotics Division
Wilson County
Joe Tackitt
Texas Rangers
Narcotics Division
Texas Department of Public Safety
D.P.S
Tackitt
D.ps
Ex-Officer Villarreal Could Not Meet Bond Funds
Albert J. Villarreal, 32, a former narcotics officer, failed to persuade District Judge Stella Saxon that his family could raise the $255,000 bond tied to 28 charges, including 23 felonies. He remains jailed as his family struggles to sell their Poteet home to meet the $25,000 personal bond needed for release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert J. Villarreal
Stella Saxon
Lynn Ellison
Ellison
Villarreal
John Longoria
Saxon
Longoria
Jail for Bail round-up raises funds in Wilson County
Floresville hosts a Red Cross Jail for Bail fundraiser as Wilson County Sheriff’s deputies arrest local dignitaries and officials on the courthouse lawn. Judge E Flores is named Red Cross prisoner with bail set at 300 dollars. FLORESVILLE Chronicle Journal staff members are among those rounded up. Funds aim to seed grants for a new pickup and disaster supplies for the Floresville Branch Office serving four counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floresville
Wilson County
Sheriff’s Department
American Red Cross
Marvin Quinney
Red Cross
E. Flores
Wilson County Justice of the Peace
Floresville Chronicle Journal
Mary
Jimmy Fietsam
Clay Settie
Wilson
Karnes
Atascosa
McMullen
Debo Eckel
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City Council
South Bexar
Boll
Jimenez
Dominic Carvajal
Daniel Tejada
Gonzalez
81St Judicial District
the Chronicle
Mary Fietsam
Wilson County News
Elaine Kolodziej
Debbie Bolf
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